Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Joseph Smith, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1868

Joseph Smith registered to vote in Fort Bend County on January 30, 1868. He reported 5 years in Texas. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Fort Bend County, Texas
5 years
In Texas
30 years
In the county
about 1863
Reached Texas

What the register records

From 1860 to 1870

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In Fort Bend County

Joseph Smith

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Joseph Smith
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
January 30, 1868
Years in Texas
5 years
Years in Fort Bend County
30 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Other freedmen named Smith in Fort Bend County

Smiths elsewhere in Texas

All 460 freedmen named Smith in Texas

Sources

This entry comes from the 1867 to 1870 Texas voter registration, the Texas Secretary of State registration lists held by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. It sits on page 34 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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